KEVIN Davies believes any potential disagreements between Wanderers’ ownership on the club’s next manager must be resolved swiftly.

After accepting the Sir Tom Finney Award for his services to football, the former England international gave his thoughts on the club’s complicated search for a new boss.

Co-owners Dean Holdsworth and Ken Anderson must agree on the man to take the Whites into League One next season and Davies reckons experience is an important quality they should seek.

“There's a bit of optimism now with the new owners and I hope they can get it together,” he told The Bolton News.

“There are rumours they're not seeing eye-to-eye on a few decisions and they really need to work together now and make the right appointments.

“I think the next manager's crucial, they have to get that right. They've gone down the route of managers who are quite inexperienced, I think they need someone with a bit of knowhow.

“They don't necessarily have to have a history with the club but they have to get the right man.

“They've said they've narrowed it down to three. The rebuilding starts now.

“It's not a gimme that they get back into the Championship with the budget they're talking about.

“If they don't get the manager right or the squad right and do all the things they need to rebuild, it could be similar to Preston – it took them four years. Other clubs have gone even further down. It's an important period for the club.”

Davies is due a testimonial for his 10 years of service to Wanderers but after shelving provisional plans last summer to examine options to continue his playing career he is now in no rush to confirm the date.

“Obviously I've been granted one by the Football League and the club,” he said. “It's there but with what's been going on it wasn't the right time for me to go barging in and say I want to do this and that.

“It would be nice to do but I'd rather wait and let the club get settled and they've got bigger things to do than have me banging on the door asking for dates and trying to strike dates.

“I've had an initial meeting with someone down at the club but I want to do it right and it's going to take quite a bit of planning.

“Maybe at some stage after next season, I'm not too sure. Hopefully within the next couple of years we'll get it done. It would be good to get those people back.”

The Wanderers Supporters’ Trust and Community Trust will be staging a legends game on May 14 and have asked Davies to play.

But Davies is content to take a watching brief for now and save his return to the pitch at the Macron for the future.

“I've been quite supportive of the Supporters' Trust, they're doing the right things down there but I'm probably in the process of maybe trying to set up my own testimonial so I'll put all my efforts into that,” he said.

“When I do return on the pitch it would be nice to be on the testimonial day and get some of my old team-mates back from the great times that I had there.

“I'll probably go down and watch but I'm not going to play.”